Students from the area were honored at Butler County Community College for their performance in the annual Stock Market Game.
BC3 has run the financial simulation game for years, and gave acknowledgement to students from kindergarten through 12th grade at a ceremony back on May 4th.
The game was broken into three separate levels based on grades. At the high school level Seneca Valley seniors Brianna Buccini and Zachary Garcia placed first in their region, and across the state in the 30-week competition.
“We liked having the opportunity to take risks without having the actual negatives,” Buccini said. “It was nice to take those dares. Is this a risk I am willing to take? Is it worth it? Should I have a different strategy? It allowed us to explore every single type of strategy without having the negative impacts.”
The teamwork and collaboration of students is an important part of the Stock Market Game, said David Huseman, director of BC3’s Center for Economic Education and a BC3 professor of humanities and social science.
“Working with others in a group to achieve a certain financial goal is important,” Huseman said. “Cooperation is a big part of what they learn. There’s always disagreements about what stocks to buy, when to buy, when to sell. So ultimately at the end of the day they have to come to some conclusion and see how it plays out in the end. I think it is learning to work with one another that is the big thing they get out of this.”
